“…Therefore, several techniques to improve solubility of poorly water-soluble drugs have been developed: inclusion complexes in cyclodextrins (Joudieh et al, 2009), self-emulsifying drug delivery systems (Porter et al, 2008), nanocrystals (Junghanns and Muller, 2008;Shegokar and Muller, 2010), coacervation (De Jaeghere et al, 2013), solid dispersions (Janssens and Van den Mooter, 2009). The latter technique (where the drug is (molecularly) dispersed in a carrier) can be prepared via solvent evaporation (Dave et al, 2012), fusion methods (Gorajana et al, 2013), complexation (Taupitz et al, 2013), spray-drying (Jang et al, 2013) or hot-melt extrusion . For pharmaceutical applications hot-melt extrusion (HME) is considered an effective process to formulate immediate release forms of poorly water-soluble drugs via the formation of solid dispersions or solutions since it has many advantages over conventional approaches, such as a solvent-free process, the possibility to be operated as continuous process, a limited number of processing steps (Maniruzzaman et al, 2013;Repka et al, 2012).…”